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microwave oven / CL: 臺|台
HSK 6
wave
HSK 6
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
disturbance / crisis / disputes / restlessness / CL: 場|场
HSK 7-9
to spread to / to involve / to affect
HSK 7-9
to rush about / to be constantly on the move
HSK 7-9
great waves / billows
HSK 7-9
twists and turns
HSK 7-9
billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
HSK 7-9
Baume hydrometer
Indianapolis, Indiana
ultrasound (scan)
mist covered water
gleaming reflection of waves in sunlight
capoeira (loanword)
shampoo (loanword) / see 洗髮皂|洗发皂
ripple / corrugation
spectrum
Port wine
Apollo (loanword)
Zoroastrianism
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  *波* | 波* | *波
(bound form) Poland (abbr. for 波蘭|波兰) / surname Bo
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *波* | 波* | *波
wave / ripple / storm / surge
surging forward with great momentum / unfolding on a magnificent scale
French Polynesia
sound wave
Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
to detect (e.g. radio waves)
Potter or Porter (surname)
(loanword) baud (computing) / porter (beer)
jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus
fluctuation
seismic wave
Boeing (aerospace company)
mordent (music)
electric wave / alternating current
a plane wave
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
Bordeaux mixture
Bogota, capital of Colombia
amplitude
brethren on the other side of the border (used in the context of China-Myanmar friendship) (loanword from Burmese "paukphaw", meaning "close kin")
Polo (car made by Volkswagen) / surname Polo
Bosnian (language)
lit. waves on a sea of vinegar / trouble caused by a jealous woman (idiom)
wave / (water) ripple
ripple / microwave
wavelength
shock wave / blast wave
signal filter
ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
wave front
(slang) (loanword) big boobs / big-breasted / (coll.) tapioca balls, in 波霸奶茶
(Tw) Botswana
Rinpoche (Tibetan honorific)
hypo (loanword) / sodium thiosulfate Na2S2O3 used in fixing photos (formerly hyposulfite) / wave (sea)
burpee (loanword)
seismic wave
Persia
Bordeaux
brain wave / EEG
Puerto Rico, self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
oscillograph / oscilloscope
Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon
wavelet (math.)
millimeter wave (radio signal)
Poland
sound wave
Persian Gulf
aftermath / repercussions / fallout
(loanword) mambo (dance)
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
electromagnetic wave
huge waves / (fig.) ruckus / controversy / sensation
Persian (cat)
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
Bonaparte (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
carrier wave
Annapolis (place name)
transverse wave
wave-shaped
polka (dance) (loanword)
Polanski (name)
Polynesia
to cast flirtatious glances at sb (idiom)
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
longitudinal wave
Po River, longest river in Italy
to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire
infrasonic wave
Tupolev, Russian plane maker

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